Aleksandr Rodchenko Experiments For the Future: Diaries, Essays, Letters and Other Writings by MoMA
$30.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
This book contains all of the diaries, programs, essays, and major articles written by Alexander Rodchenko between 1911 and 1956. The word "experiment" was a keyword for the artist, who conceived of his multimedia oeuvre as one huge experiment. Referred to by his friends and contemporaries as "a scout o ...Show more
Bert & Ned - The Correspondence of Albert Tucker and Sydney Nolan by Patrick McCaughey (ed)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan were friends and rivals but never antagonists for the whole of their working lives as artists. Covering a period of more than thirty years, these letters throw light on their expatriate years in the 1950s and mark their changing and changeable attitude to Australia, both a ...Show more
Edward Hopper - An Intimate Biography by Gail Levin
$20.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: good
Edward Hopper's canvasses are filled with stripped-down spaces and unrelenting light, evocative landscapes, and the lonely aspects of men and women seemingly isolated in their surroundings. What kind of man had this haunting vision, and what kind of life engendered this art? No one is better qualified t ...Show more
The Harold Letters, 1928-1943 - The Story of a Young Intellectual by Clement Greenberg; Janice Van Horne (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Portrait of an Artist William Dobell: A Biography by Brian Adams
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
Noel Counihan - Artist and Revolutionary by Bernard Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
Noel Counihan's art was inspired by a profound political commitment from adolescence until death. This book is the story of a great artist's life, chroncling what it was like to be a choir boy in Melbourne during the 1920s; a teenage bohemian caught up in the struggle for civil rights during the Great D ...Show more
The Discovery of Painting - The Growth of Interest in the Arts in England, 1680-1768 by Iain Pears
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Studies in British Art | Reading Level: very good
Concepts of Modern Art by Nikos Stangos
$16.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
The 3rd revised and enlarged edition of this introduction to modern art in the WORLD OF ART series, which now includes a new essay, POSTMODERNISM AND THE ART OF IDENTITY which brings the story of modern art right up to the present.
British Painting: The Golden Age by William Vaughan
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The period from the early works of Hogarth (about 1730) to the death of Turner (1851) was the golden age of British painting, bringing it into the forefront of European art. The main figures are Hogarth, Ramsay, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence, Blake, Constable and Turner. William Vaughan discusses ...Show more
Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
$14.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
?An eloquent reading of images produced by peoples in the Pacific? ? Art Monthly Looking at and beyond the dazzling colours and patterns of the ?primitive? art of the Pacific Islands to explore the significance of the art, past and present. Nicholas Thomas shows how each region is characterized by its o ...Show more
British Art since 1900 by Frances Spalding
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this book Frances Spalding reassesses the astonishing achievements of British artists from the Edwardians Ben Nicholson and Walter Sickert to the Bloomsbury painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant; from the work of Paul Nash and David Jones between the wars to that of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, ...Show more